Oscar De La Hoya

The circus is coming to Hartford, so the city's professional hockey team is hitting the road. Fresh off a thrilling victory over the Providence Bruins in the AHL Eastern Conference quarterfinals, the Wolf Pack will face the Hershey Bears in the next playoff round. The series opens in the land of chocolate Wednesday and Hartford will host Game 3 on May 10 and Game 4 on May 11. Actually, Hartford is not hosting because Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus is at the XL Center. The obvious options to shift the "home" games (MassMutual Center in Springfield, Webster Bank Arena in Bridgeport) are unavailable because those AHL franchises are not in the playoffs and the ice...

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